Two young couples on a road trip one rainy night stop at a bizarre gas station featuring Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen, and his carnival-like Murder Ride sideshow. The gas station owner and attraction narrator is a rotten-toothed clown named "Captain Spaulding" (Sid Haig), who tells them about a murderous local legend known as Dr. Satan, and reluctantly gives them directions to find the place of the muderer's execution. Back on the road, the travelers pick up a hitchhiker stranded in the rain, Baby Firefly (Sheri Moon Zombie). After one of their tires is suddenly blown out, Bill (Rainn Wilson) runs with Baby to her house, where he is tantalized by both the seductive Baby and her mother (Karen Black). Bill's friends are soon towed to the house by Baby's quiet but imposing brother Rufus, and meet the rest of the unusual family members, including Baby's twisted brother Otis (Bill Mosley). A warm place to come in from the rain quickly turns into a deadly trap and the travelers find themselves at the mercy of a family of sadistic psychopaths. Their only chance to escape may be through the secret underworld of Dr. Satan and his victims.
Chad Bannon | Killer Karl | |
William Bassett | Sheriff Frank Huston | |
Karen Black | Mother Firefly | |
Erin Daniels | Denise Willis | |
Joe Dobbs III | Gerry Ober | |
Judith Drake | Skunk Ape Wife | |
Dennis Fimple | Grampa Hugo | |
Gregg Gibbs | Dr. Wolfenstein | |
Walton Goggins | Steve Naish | |
Sid Haig | Captain Spaulding | |
Chris Hardwick | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Ken Johnson | Skunk Ape Husband | |
Jennifer Jostyn | Mary Knowles | |
Irwin Keyes | Ravelli | |
Matthew McGrory | Tiny Firefly | |
Jake McKinnon | The Professor | |
Sheri Moon | Baby Firefly | |
Bill Moseley | Otis | |
Irvin Mosley Jr. | Lewis Dover | |
Robert Allen Mukes | Rufus | |
Walter Phelan | Dr. Satan | |
Michael J. Pollard | Stucky | |
David Reynolds | Richard Wick | |
Tom Towles | Detective George Wydell | |
Rainn Wilson | Bill Hudley |
Director | Rob Zombie | |
Writer | Rob Zombie | |
Producer | Andy Given, Andy Gould, Joel Hatch, Robert K. Lambert, Guy Oseary, Danielle Shilling Lovett | |
Musician | Scott Humphrey, Rob Zombie | |
Photography | Alex Poppas, Tom Richmond |
Owner | Review? |
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Location | Horror Disk 1 |
Purchased | for $ 69.99 at YIFY |
Quantity | 1 |
Seen | Oct 08, 2019 at our home w/tamara,bec |
Added Date | Jul 06, 2017 01:32:59 |
Modified Date | Oct 09, 2019 00:28:28 |
My quick rating - 6,1/10. Multiple views, first time rating. The first delve into movie making for Rob Zombie and it shows. This movie is clearly not the near masterpiece that the pseudo-sequel "Devils Rejects" is. Ok, masterpiece is a stretch, but I'll come back to that in its own review. This movie is more of a extended music video to showcase Zombies style and the 3 main characters he intends on using moving forward. Underused Haig, over annoying Moon (not yet Zombie in this flick) and a tame version of Moseley. Typical slasher with some stupid kids getting caught up in a nightmare when stopping at a local gas station in the middle of nowhere. Those are always about as safe as a cabin in the woods. Anyway, this movie goes from slasher style, to supernatural that is underdeveloped and you'll notice kind of just forgottten about. Quick cuts, ala music video style editing and the zoom in/out that they are known for. It has its flaws, but also is very entertaining. And I already know what this leads to ;)